Chapter 154 Words from Steve Jobs who led the world

In June 2006, Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave a very wonderful speech for the graduates at the graduation ceremony of Stanford University, called "Words to the Graduates".The speech was famous and people all over the world were moved after seeing it online. In this speech he tells how his outlook on life was formed and his message to the young people of the world. He started from his illegitimate child's life experience and some obstacles he encountered when he was young, talked about why he entered the computer world, and then confessed to everyone that he was expelled from the company he founded and got a new life after overcoming pancreatic cancer.

In the end, he told the graduates that the most important thing for him to get to where he is today is "not to lose the heart of challenge". His closing words are this: "stay hungry, stay foolish". Steve Jobs who gave this speech was really amazing, and the day after his speech, the whole world knew what he said. I was in Europe at the time, and everyone I met was talking about the speech, and I was shocked. His speech was also translated into Japanese and published in Sato Toshiyuki's mail magazine, and then widely circulated through various channels such as forwarding and reprinting, and the repercussions were getting bigger and bigger.

I also hope that more people will know, so I wrote "Kenichi Ohmae·News Viewpoint" and sent it out. The great thing about the network society is that information can spread throughout the world in an instant. "Steve Jobs changed" instantly became "something the whole world knows". In addition, the video of Putin’s campaign speech in English for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the video of Professor Randy Bausch of Carnegie Mellon University and other videos on YouTube that have caused global issues, The list goes on and on. At this point, if you ask "what's the matter?", it means that you don't have the "quality of the 21st century".

With that said, if you're not regularly watching "YouTube Top 10 Hits" videos, you're falling behind. Is it appropriate to call this "quality"? Although I dare not say for sure, but I think what the Japanese lack is the reaction to these things.I think the ability of Japanese people to feel new things, accept new things and new trends has decreased a lot. A brilliant speech spreads across the world in a flash, and it's not okay to say "don't know that."